Hi WJ,

Almost unbelievably, the default encoding for properties files is ISO 
8859-1. From the 
JavaDoc<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html>
:

The 
load(Reader)<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.Reader)>
 / store(Writer, 
String)<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#store(java.io.Writer,
 
java.lang.String)> methods load and store properties from and to a 
character based stream in a simple line-oriented format specified below. The
load(InputStream)<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.InputStream)>
 / store(OutputStream, 
String)<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#store(java.io.OutputStream,
 
java.lang.String)> methods work the same way as the 
load(Reader)/store(Writer, String) pair, except the input/output stream is 
encoded in ISO 8859-1 character encoding. Characters that cannot be 
directly represented in this encoding can be written using Unicode escapes 
as defined in section 3.3 of The Java™ Language Specification; only a 
single 'u' character is allowed in an escape sequence. The native2ascii 
tool can be used to convert property files to and from other character 
encodings.


So, I would say, save the file in its current encoding, but do the ę as 
\u0119.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Paul


On Sunday, January 26, 2014 1:39:11 PM UTC+1, Wojtek Jurczyk wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I found a couple of misspelled words in Polish translation and I would 
> like to fix them. After I found the translation file a simple question came 
> to my mind. What encoding should I use? The file seems to be saved in ANSI. 
> Obviously, that makes the translation easy to print out in every system but 
> on the other hand some "special" letter are missing ("a" instead of "ą" 
> etc). Using the simplest encoding sounds reasonable but having polish 
> letters in the translation sounds nice. Should I correct the typos I've 
> found and add polish letters and save the file in UTF8 or just the typos 
> and save the file as it is?
>
> Regards,
> WJ
>
>

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